(Bare) Metal Protocols

1. UEFI uefi

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[2025-03-08 Sat 01:07] – ~ [2025-03-08 Sat 01:09] – 22. EFI Byte Code Virtual Machine — UEFI Specification 2.11 documentation [2025-03-09 Sun 20:56] – Uefi.inc - OSDev Wiki [2025-03-09 Sun 20:57] – GNU-EFI - OSDev Wiki

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

1.1. OVMF

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[2025-03-09 Sun 19:40] – OVMF - Xen [2025-03-09 Sun 20:24] – faq

Open Virtual Machine Firmware

How to run OVMF · tianocore/tianocore.github.io Wiki

# sudo pacman -Sy edk2-ovmf
mkdir ovmf && cd ovmf
mkdir a
mv /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.4m.fd bios.bin
qemu-system-x86_64 -L . -pflash bios.bin -hda fat:rw:a -net none

UEFI Application development in OVMF

2. ACPI

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[2025-03-09 Sun 20:04] – ACPI - OSDev Wiki

2.1. ACPICA

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[2025-03-09 Sun 20:04] – Overview of ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA)

ACPI Component Architecture - a reference impl of ACPI.

3. Multiboot

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[2025-03-09 Sun 20:05] – Multiboot - OSDev Wiki [2025-03-09 Sun 20:05] – Multiboot Specification version 0.6.96

4. U-boot

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[2025-03-09 Sun 20:05] – U-Boot [2025-03-09 Sun 20:06] – "Das U-Boot" Source Tree [2025-03-09 Sun 20:06] – How U-boot loads Linux kernel | Welcome to the Mike’s homepage!

5. coreboot

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[2025-03-09 Sun 20:06] – coreboot

6. BIOS

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[2025-03-09 Sun 21:08] – BIOS - Wikipedia

fsmv/bootstrap-os: A bootable x86 lisp interpreter, assembler, and simple text editor that lets you run the code you type in so you can bootstrap anything